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Also, the warrant involved in the raid is now apparently public. Bit of a problem with them since Brietbart released unredacted versions that has the names of the agents involved on them, so... yeah. Try to find the scrubbed versions if you go looking, probably.

... but anyway, going by those someone (that someone being trump) is now looking down the potentially more literal that not barrel of multiple Espionage Act charges (which people have been executed for before; not likely with trump, but the potential penalties for that one very much go all the way). What happens next is going to be a hell of a thing, one way or another.

E: Oh, and for the curious that haven't noticed, this particular case is one of those where presidential declassification power is actually limited -- trump couldn't have unilaterally declassified any information that involved nuclear technology. If he had those without congressional approval, he's just kinda' fucked with no legal recourse.

It could also be the friskier variant of bear, but that should probably wait until after the plague's run it's course.

I wonder if there are any estimates for the insect content in a cup of coffee or tea.

Depending on the country and its regulation infrastructure, probably! Some places are both required to and actually do track that kind of information, so some office or another has the applicable data to be able to figure that one out.

Dunno about coffee, but the numbers on canned goods stateside are pretty easy to find, I think, or were at some point. The amount is definitely non-zero

So... yeah. Armed attack on a FBI field office, appears to have been a right-wing loon retaliating for the raid. No news I've noticed of other casualties, but last update I saw was report of the attacker (perhaps unsurprisingly) confirmed dead.

Guess we get to see if things escalate further.

So which of the three were the founding fathers?

All three were represented, iirc. Memory might be borking up, but I seem to recall that on top of everything else, it was also partially so folks in the colonies would be more free to pursue genocide of the native populations.

Yeah, more or less. The work itself is fine so long as folks are working with me instead of at crossways, and the last director was even damn good at that -- the issue that's really kicked this mess off is one I've encountered multiple times before while working with the last one, and we had good practices in place to address it.

... I'd say I'm pretty decent at it, too (though my department coworkers have been great, as well), been managing to tread water on a full time position working 15 or less hours a week, having been hired with no previous experience and only indirectly applicable education, while trying to take care of elderly family more or less at the same time (we've got a solid bit of help in the last year or so, but we didn't for most of the time I've been working there), fairly steadily even managing to chip away at the stuff that's not time sensitive.

When I was first hired, there were boxes in our office stacked taller than me, and the storage closet was even more full, the point you literally couldn't see the back wall and there was stuff on the top of the shelves nearly touching the ceiling. Actual no joke decades of stored materials that hadn't been dealt with.

By the time the new boss started messing with stuff, it was cut down to the point one or two people could substantively mess with things on a day the cataloging folks weren't there for whatever reason, instead of that being a literally weeks to months long project (I know it's that long because it took me months to do mostly alone, during the periods I didn't have other stuff to do, heh). I've by and large enjoyed the work I've done, to the extent actual work can be enjoyed.

But between the situation with my grandparents getting worse, my health getting worse, and the new boss doing what they're doing, it's just... somethin' gotta' give before it's my heart, y'know? Least that's the conclusion I've come to.

couscous would appear to be a meal/method of food prep -- it's traditionally made from durum wheat, but other stuff can be used as well

Probably going to be handing in my two weeks notice in the next day or three. Found out today the new boss considers this to be truthful and accurate material, and not far right propaganda by a right-wing conspiracy theorist and a further right wing religious school grifter. Ordered me to get it on our shelves, unchallenged, no material on differing viewpoints, nothing. It's arguably against our library's previous collection development policies, and 100% against our previous practices before they were hired -- our last director wouldn't touch shit that biased with a ten foot pole, and especially not without material from differing positions on the subject.

It's also pretty damn strongly against my personal and professional ethics and inclinations. I got no interest whatsoever in helping to turn a public library into a far right propaganda outlet. I ain't got the energy to fight it with everything else going on, but I damn sure don't have to be the one to help.

So... yeah. Kinda' sucks. I liked most of my coworkers pretty well, the actual work was something I could handle and enjoyable enough in its own right, but just. Nah. Fuck that noise, y'know?